From a room filled with cymbidiums given regularly from fellow students, this warm huggable lady from Philadelphia cheerfully, puts her one foot, her only foot, actually half a foot, down and tells me: 'My mission is to be as independent as possible. I am stimulated and more flexible in my body and mind, aware, new energy and having more fun out of life and feeling my heartbeat.'
What creates this for Betsy? She creates it because as a friend and being a driven, Yoga therapist and a recovered disabled woman I teach Yoga therapy/Viniyoga: ancient wisdom of Classical Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda, to facilitate the continuum of self healing.
I tell her it is Yoga, but so much more. Yoga is all. It is everything, it is a process to unite and is about freedom. Physical, energetic, psycho emotional, and spiritual healing means the freedom to be simply who we truly are.
Freedom is the word that sums it up.
My joy is having her receive from me. A friend of many years since she took care of me over 20 years ago as a master massage therapist after I nearly died in an auto accident and had to learn to walk again. I decided then to put journalism aside and research body mind therapy and became a yoga therapist.
As Deepak Chopra writes, 'Receiving is as necessary as giving. To consciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.' And Betsy knows how to receive.
By www.huffingtonpost.com
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